Brighton Rock
by Graham Greene
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An atmospheric crime thriller featuring a teenage sociopath intent on becoming the underworld boss of Brighton. Having murdered a man who had betrayed his gang the young gangster Pinky Brown tries to covers his tracks but circumstances never seem to go his way and he becomes ever more desperate, even going so far as to marry a young girl who witnessed the shooting, it being the law at that time that a man’s wife could not be forced to testify against him.
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Fiction, Gangsters, Organized crime, Psychopaths, Teenage boys, Fiction / General, Gangs, Fiction, suspense, England, fiction, Greene, graham, 1904-1991, English fiction, history and criticism, 20th century, Social conditions, English Psychological fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)Places
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Brighton Rock
July 15, 1987, Heinemann Educational Secondary Division
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October 27, 1977, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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"HALE knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him."
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| August 12, 2010 | Edited by IdentifierBot | added LibraryThing ID |
| April 24, 2010 | Edited by Open Library Bot | Fixed duplicate goodreads IDs. |
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